"Scout's Honor," the documentary that examines the antigay stance of the Boy Scouts of America, shared the audience award for documentaries with "Dogtown".
There's no question that 2011 has so far proved a strong year for documentaries, with TT3D cracking £1m, and both Cave of Forgotten Dreams (£563,000) and Pina (£517,000) halfway to that target.
It was a disappointing year for documentaries, with only Restrepo (a study of a US platoon in Afghanistan by the Anglo-American team of Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington) attaining unmissable status.
Toronto has become a premiere launching pad for documentaries, with movies such as the 2013 Oscar nominee "The Act of Killing" and last year's award-season favorites "Red Army" and "Finding Vivian Maier" making key stops there.
There has been an enormous amount of publicity for this documentary, with praise for Phillips' clearly heartfelt intentions.
Some of the tricks employed by director Richard Benjamin and Teena Booth, whose teleplay is based on the book "Dead End" by Jeanne King, are reminiscent of "To Die For" -- documentary interviews with actors playing the lawyers, the prosecutors and the relatives of victims.
While corporations back films all the time, it is rare for one to pay for a documentary with direct hopes that it will translate into bigger profits.
To take Mr. Polunin out of the ballet box, Ms. Tana suggested he work on a new segment for the documentary with David LaChapelle, the photographer and filmmaker who had directed "Rize," a documentary about the street dance krumping.
The film presents this intellectual biography through interviews with Sir Isaiah, and filmed for the documentary, with Michael Ignatieff, his biographer, and Henry Hardy, his principal editor, along with Alfred Brendel, pianist and friend, and others.
Tony Gerber recently won a American Television Academy honor in 2017 for his documentary with CNN titled, We Will Rise, which traces former First Lady Michelle Obama's trip to Africa to raise awareness for girls' education.
